.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 304 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 -178 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 518 401 1,875
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.02% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.32% 5.12% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 489 344 1,772
10th Percentile £43,500 £40,186 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,734 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,202 7,827 17,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 19.93% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,203 5,497 14,124
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,561 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -16 131 £55,000 -8.33% 56
South East +23 98 £57,500 +15.00% 55
London -80 84 £85,000 +7.94% 58
Midlands +1 74 £55,000 +4.76% 24
North West +11 69 £55,000 -8.33% 29
East of England +34 65 £87,500 +59.09% 24
South West -25 59 £52,500 -16.00% 12
East Midlands +8 43 £55,000 +4.76% 10
North East -11 41 £65,000 +36.84% 11
West Midlands -42 31 £60,000 +0.84% 14
Yorkshire -55 21 £55,000 -8.33% 17
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.74%) IIS
3 4 (0.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 351 (67.76%) Azure
2 108 (20.85%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (16.99%) AWS
4 62 (11.97%) GitHub
5 50 (9.65%) SaaS
6 48 (9.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 46 (8.88%) Serverless
8 44 (8.49%) Azure AI
9 41 (7.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 40 (7.72%) Power Platform
11 25 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 24 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (4.44%) Azure Functions
13 23 (4.44%) Power Automate
13 23 (4.44%) PowerApps
14 22 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (3.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (3.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.09%) Internet
2 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.58%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) AMQP
4 1 (0.19%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (31.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 149 (28.76%) SQL Server
3 116 (22.39%) MongoDB
4 42 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (6.76%) Power BI
6 24 (4.63%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.90%) MySQL
9 9 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.35%) Redis
10 7 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.97%) GIS
12 4 (0.77%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (0.39%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (8.30%) Git
2 6 (1.16%) GitLab
2 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (1.16%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.58%) JIRA
3 3 (0.58%) Vite
4 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.39%) MSTest
4 2 (0.39%) NUnit
4 2 (0.39%) webpack
5 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.19%) Selenium
5 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (15.44%) Finance
2 52 (10.04%) Social Skills
3 22 (4.25%) Games
4 17 (3.28%) Banking
5 15 (2.90%) Retail
6 14 (2.70%) Advertising
7 10 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.74%) Automotive
8 9 (1.74%) Front Office
8 9 (1.74%) Marketing
9 8 (1.54%) Law
10 6 (1.16%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.97%) Legal
12 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.77%) Back Office
12 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.58%) Electronics
13 3 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.58%) Music Industry
14 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 393 (75.87%) Developer
2 238 (45.95%) .NET Developer
3 118 (22.78%) Senior
4 109 (21.04%) Software Developer
5 72 (13.90%) Senior Developer
6 70 (13.51%) C# Developer
7 56 (10.81%) C# .NET Developer
8 51 (9.85%) Lead
9 48 (9.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 48 (9.27%) Software Engineer
10 31 (5.98%) Senior Software Developer
11 28 (5.41%) .NET Software Developer
11 28 (5.41%) Lead Developer
12 26 (5.02%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (4.05%) Applications Developer
14 21 (4.05%) Azure Developer
14 21 (4.05%) C# Software Developer
15 20 (3.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (100.00%) .NET
2 229 (44.21%) ASP.NET
3 159 (30.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 115 (22.20%) React
5 105 (20.27%) HTML
6 104 (20.08%) CSS
7 96 (18.53%) Entity Framework
8 94 (18.15%) RESTful
9 93 (17.95%) .NET Framework
9 93 (17.95%) Blazor
10 77 (14.86%) Vue
11 69 (13.32%) AngularJS
12 63 (12.16%) ASP.NET Web API
13 60 (11.58%) Node.js
14 44 (8.49%) ML.NET
15 41 (7.92%) REST
16 39 (7.53%) LINQ
17 36 (6.95%) JSON
18 21 (4.05%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (3.67%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.95%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 13 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.32%) Hedge funds
6 12 (2.32%) Sports Betting
7 9 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.74%) Digital TV
7 9 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.35%) iPhone
9 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.35%) Social Network
10 6 (1.16%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.97%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.77%) BBC
12 4 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.51%) VMS
2 7 (1.35%) Android
2 7 (1.35%) Windows
3 5 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (46.53%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (38.03%) Agile
3 153 (29.54%) CI/CD
4 140 (27.03%) DevOps
5 101 (19.50%) Software Engineering
6 99 (19.11%) Microservices
7 64 (12.36%) Machine Learning
8 61 (11.78%) AI
9 56 (10.81%) Multithreading
10 54 (10.42%) Containerisation
11 53 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (9.85%) SDLC
13 49 (9.46%) OO
14 47 (9.07%) MVC
15 43 (8.30%) User Experience
16 39 (7.53%) Analytics
16 39 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (6.95%) Clean Code
17 36 (6.95%) Collaborative Culture
18 33 (6.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 467 (90.15%) C#
2 273 (52.70%) SQL
3 145 (27.99%) JavaScript
4 107 (20.66%) TypeScript
5 39 (7.53%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.86%) Python
7 12 (2.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.16%) Bash
10 4 (0.77%) Bicep
10 4 (0.77%) Java
11 3 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) F#
Qualifications
1 34 (6.56%) Degree
2 16 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.93%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (1.35%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.47%) QA
2 9 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.39%) GDPR
3 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.39%) ITGC
3 2 (0.39%) SLA
4 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (22.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 101 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 230 (44.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.67%) Adobe
3 17 (3.28%) Google
4 14 (2.70%) Facebook
5 6 (1.16%) YouTube
6 5 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.77%) Apple
7 4 (0.77%) Sony
7 4 (0.77%) Workday
7 4 (0.77%) Yahoo!
8 3 (0.58%) Splunk
9 2 (0.39%) Foundry
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle
9 2 (0.39%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.19%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.19%) Reuters
10 1 (0.19%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.19%) WooCommerce